Cultural Olympiad Oxford Brookes University

Tiffany Black (BA Hons, MA) is an artist, lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and public art consultant. She has commissioned art work for public buildings and a sports centre. She exhibits as part of the creative arts partnership brook & black; undertaking research, making and exhibiting in museums, galleries and public ‘open’ sites. She also teaches on the National Society for Education in Art and Design, Artist Teacher Scheme, Oxford Brookes University in conjunction with Modern Art Oxford.



Leora Brook, (BA, MA) is an associate lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts and at the American Intercontinental University, London. She has led educational workshops across London within several different institutions and community groups. The brook & black partnership brings together a combination of skills rooted in contemporary fine art practice; through the use of installation, sound, video, printmaking, photography and sculpture. brook & black explore the intervening and reconfiguring of interior and exterior spaces. Several core themes continue to be addressed in their work: the layering of human experience within structured or built space; memory and the passing of time; the fluidity and transformational aspects of water; the expressive and still surprising force of light and shadow.


Harriet Harriss (BA(Hons) MA(RCA) AA(Dip) RIBA) is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University following an international career as an award-winning architect & designer specialising in innovation and public participation in the built environment, with additional expertise in sensitive and historical sites. In 2007, Harriet became an associate in a consortium consultancy that specialises in creating diverse teams that combine architectural thinking with strategy and process intelligence to deliver ‘design solutions’ to a variety of public, academic and commercial clients. Harriet is currently researching how architectural tropes and modus operandi can be transposed into other related disciplines and industries to develop innovative new commercial and social values.